Bug#803739: cosmetic: /initrd.img /vmlinuz smylinks - absolute vs. relative

[Marco <lists@homerow.info>]

On Mon, 02 Nov 2015 06:23:56 +0100 Christoph Anton Mitterer
<calestyo@scientia.net> wrote:

I also stumbled upon the fact that /vmlinuz is a relative link (as
it should be) and /initrd.img is an absolute link while building a
PXE environment.

> This is absolutely just cosmetic ;-)

Others also noticed the same thing and the absolute link is an issue
e.g. in PXE and VM environments. See

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=692333#29

and

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763653#5

> Unless this has some secret reason,... it may be aligned for
> cosmetic reasons.

I don't think it's purely cosmetic because people have issues with
the absolute links. I fail to see a reason why an absolute link
should be better, but someone might prove me wrong. And after all
this issue is more than three years old:

  #692333, #763653